{"id":8122,"date":"2018-04-24T10:00:39","date_gmt":"2018-04-24T14:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/?p=8122"},"modified":"2024-07-08T06:05:57","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T10:05:57","slug":"at-what-cost-wifi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2018\/04\/24\/at-what-cost-wifi\/","title":{"rendered":"At what cost WiFi?"},"content":{"rendered":"

A recent\u00a0“Inside Higher Ed” article<\/a>\u00a0examines how colleges, including U-M, are committing considerable resources to keep up with students\u2019 expectation that wireless internet should be free, fast, and everywhere.<\/p>\n

The U-M Ann Arbor campus embarked on an ambitious Wi-Fi upgrade<\/a>\u00a0five years ago that required meticulous planning. In some areas the wired network had to be extended, and new wireless access points needed new power supplies. Changes had to be made with minimum disruption to campus, and required special accommodations for working in heritage buildings.<\/p>\n

The $24.5\u00a0million project is now nearing completion.\u00a0\u201cWhat we really wanted was wall-to-wall, basement-to-penthouse coverage,\u201d said Andy Palms<\/strong>, executive director of information and technology services infrastructure. The university estimates that it won’t need to upgrade the network again for another five years, and next time it will require much less work and cost half as much.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A recent\u00a0“Inside Higher Ed” article\u00a0examines how colleges, including U-M, are committing considerable resources to keep up with students\u2019 expectation that wireless internet should be free, fast, and everywhere. The U-M Ann Arbor campus embarked on an ambitious Wi-Fi upgrade\u00a0five years ago that required meticulous planning. In some areas the wired network had to be extended, and new wireless\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4507,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_umich_oidc_access":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[96,83],"class_list":["post-8122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-news","tag-students","tag-wifi"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/wifi-1989627_640.png",640,436,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/wifi-1989627_640-125x85.png",125,85,true],"medium":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/wifi-1989627_640-294x200.png",294,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/wifi-1989627_640.png",640,436,false],"large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/wifi-1989627_640.png",600,409,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/wifi-1989627_640.png",640,436,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/wifi-1989627_640.png",640,436,false],"excerpt-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/wifi-1989627_640-200x140.png",200,140,true],"themonic-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/wifi-1989627_640-60x42.png",60,42,true],"ioslider-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/wifi-1989627_640-640x300.png",640,300,true],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/wifi-1989627_640.png",640,436,false],"400x250-crop":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/wifi-1989627_640.png",367,250,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"News Staff","author_link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/author\/mitnewsadm\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"A recent\u00a0“Inside Higher Ed” article\u00a0examines how colleges, including U-M, are committing considerable resources to keep up with students\u2019 expectation that wireless internet should be free, fast, and everywhere. The U-M Ann Arbor campus embarked on an ambitious Wi-Fi upgrade\u00a0five years ago that required meticulous planning. In some areas the wired network had to be extended,…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8122"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8124,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8122\/revisions\/8124"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}